| Colin Eatock |
| Three Songs from Blake's "America" (1987) |
| II: Drammatico (2:29) |
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This performance was recorded live at the Wolf Performance Hall, in London, Ontario, on December 10, 2006. This music file requires the free Flash Player available HERE |
| Text (William Blake) |
| "Sound! sound! my loud war-trumpets, & alarm my Thirteen Angels! |
| "Loud howls the eternal Wolf! the eternal Lion lashes his tail! |
| "America is darken'd and my punishing demons terrified, |
| "Crouch howling before their caverns deep, like skins dry'd in the wind. |
| "They cannot smite the wheat, nor quench the fatness of the earth; |
| "They cannot smite with sorrows nor subdue the plough and spade; |
| "They cannot wall the city, nor moat round the castle of princes; |
| "They cannot bring the stubbed oak to overgrow the hills; |
| "Sound! sound! my loud war-trumpets, & alarm my Thirteen Angels! |
| "Loud howls the eternal Wolf! the eternal Lion lashes his tail! |
| "For terrible men stand on the shores, & in their robes I see |
| "Children take shelter from the lightnings: there stands Washington |
| "And Paine and Warren with their foreheads rear'd toward the east. |
| "Sound! sound! my loud war-trumpets, & alarm my Thirteen Angels! |
| "Loud howls the eternal Wolf! the eternal Lion lashes his tail!'' |
| Thus wept the Angel voice, & as he wept, the terrible blasts |
| Of trumpets blew a loud alarm across the Atlantic deep. |